Finding files in Linux filesystems

Both Linux and Unixish provides command to find file. The best and easy way to find file is to use command called locate. It list files in databases that match a pattern. For example to find file called myprog.c you need to use locate command as follows:

$ locate myprog.c | less

Another option is to use find command. For example find out all C source code file from /home/jerry directory:$ find /home/jerry -name "*.c" -print OR$ find ~jerry -name "*.c" -print Please note that ~jerry is short-cut name to refer user jerry's home directory (/home/jerry). FIND command has very advance usage please see following articles for more information:

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